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1Secondly, the resurrection and /eavenly path, the gathering and dispersion, and the nature of the circumstances of the resurrection, as regards the virtuous and evil-doers, through the weight of every action they perform for good and evil.’ This description corresponds very closely with what the Bundahis must have been, before the addition of the genealogical and chronological chapters at the end; and D4d-sparam mentions in his text here, and again in § 16, particulars regarding the Damd&d which also occur in the Bundahis (XIV, 2, 14-18, 21-24). There can be very little doubt, therefore, that the Bundahis was originally a translation of the Démdad, though probably abridged; and the text translated in this volume is certainly a further abridgment of the original Bundahis, or Zand-4k4s. Whether the Avesta text of the Damdad was still in existence in the time of Dad-sparam is uncertain, as he would apply the name to the Pahlavi text. At the present time it is very unusual for a copyist to write the Pahlavi text without its Avesta, when the latter exists, but this may not always have been the case. ? Or ‘brains.’ 2 Supposing the MS. galdélag is a corruption of gallak (Pers. ghallah). > Assuming the MS. alfiné or arvanéd to be a corruption of alfim or arsand. “ Reading raf instead of 14. 5 Compare Bund. XIV, 2. * Either this sentence is very corrupt in the MS. or it cannot be SELECTIONS OF ZAD-SPARAM, IX, 3-10. 179 5. And it is also said that from the lungs are the ruelike herbs! whzch heal, and are for the lung-disease of cattle. 6. This, rooted amid the heart, is thyme, from which is Vohiman’s thorough withstanding of the stench of Akéman’, and z¢ zs for that which proceeds from the sick and yawners. 7. Afterwards, the brilliance of the seed, seized upon, by strength, from the seed whzck was the ox’s, they would carry of from it, ad the brilliance was intrusted to the angel of the moon’; in a place therein that seed was thoroughly purified by the light of the moon, and was restored in its many qualities, and made fully infused with life (g4nvarhémand). 8. Forth from there it produced for Atran-vég, first, two oxen, a pair, male and female‘, and, afterwards, other species, until the completion of the 282 species’; and they were discernible as far as two long leagues om the earth. 9. Quadrupeds walked forth on the land, fish swam in the water, and birds flew zz the atmosphere; zz every two, at the time good eating is enjoyed, a longing (4vdah4n) arose therefrom, and pregnancy and birth. 10. Secondly, their subdivision is thus :—First, they are divided into three, that is, quadrupeds walking on the earth, fish swimming in the water, reconciled with the corresponding clause of Bund. XIV, 2. Altering dénak and gfinak into gandanak, and samagé into samasdar, we might read, ‘from the nose is m4ys, which is called the leek, and the leek was an onion;’ but this is doubtful, and leaves the word m4ys unexplained.
2XIV, 2. Altering dénak and gfinak into gandanak, and samagé into samasdar, we might read, ‘from the nose is m4ys, which is called the leek, and the leek was an onion;’ but this is doubtful, and leaves the word m4ys unexplained. 1 The MS. has géspend&né, ‘cattle,’ instead of sipandand, ‘rue herbs.’ . * See Bund. I, 24, 27, XXVIII, 7, XXX, ag. ® Bund. X, 2, XIV, 3. 4 Bund. X, 3, XIV, 4. 5 Bund. X, 3, XIV, 13. 180 _ APPENDIX TO THE BUNDAHIS. and birds flying in the atmosphere. 11. Then, into five classes}, that is, the quadruped which is roundhoofed, the double-hoofed, the: five-clawed, the bird, and the fish, whose dwellings are in five places, and which are called aquatic, burrowing, oviparous, widetravelling, and suitable for grazing. 12. The aquatic are fish and every beast of burden, cattle, wild beast, dog, and bird which enters the water; the burrowing are the marten (samfr) and musk anzmals, and all other dwellers and movers in holes; the oviparous are birds of every kind; the widetravelling sprang away for help, and are also those of a like kind; those suitable for grazing are whatever are kept grazing in a flock. 13. And, afterwards, they were divided into genera, as the round-hoofed are one, which is all called ‘horse ;’ the double-hoofed are many, as the camel and ox, the sheep and goat, and others double-hoofed; the five-clawed are the dog, hare, musk animals, marten, avd others; then are the birds, and then the fish. 14. And then they were divided into species *, as eight species of horse, two species of camel, ten® species of ox, five species of sheep, five species of goat, ten of the dog, five of the hare, eight of the marten, eight of the musk azzmals, 110 of the birds, and ten of the fish; some are counted for the pigs, and with all those declared and all those undeclared ¢here were, at first, 282 species *; and with the species within species there were a thousand varieties. 1 Bund. XIV, 8-12. 2 Bund. XIV, 13-23, 26, 27. ® Bund. XIV, 17 says ‘fifteen,’ which is probably correct. * Only 181 species are detailed or ‘ declared’ here, SELECTIONS OF ZAL-SPARAM, IX, II-I9. 181 15. The birds are distributed? into eight groups (rtstak5), and from that which is largest to that which is smallest ¢hey are so spread about as when a man, who is sowing grain, first scatters abroad ¢hat of heavy weight, then that which is middling, and afterwards that which is small.
3181 15. The birds are distributed? into eight groups (rtstak5), and from that which is largest to that which is smallest ¢hey are so spread about as when a man, who is sowing grain, first scatters abroad ¢hat of heavy weight, then that which is middling, and afterwards that which is small. 16. And of the whole of the species, as enumerated a second time in the Damdéd Nask?, and written by me in the manuscript (niptk) of ‘the summary enumeration of races?’—this is a lordly‘ summary—the matter which is shown is, about the species of horses, the first is the Arab, and the chief of them® is white and yellow-eared, and secondly the Persian, the mule, the ass, the wild ass, the water-horse, avd others. 17. Of the camel there are specially two, ‘hat for the plain, amd the mountain one which is double-humped. 18. Among the species of ox are the white, mud-coloured, red, yellow, black, and dappled, the elk, the buffalo, the camel-leopard®, the ox-fish, avd others. 19. Among sheep are those having tails and those which are tailless, also the wether and the Kairisk which, because of its trampling the hills, zés great horn, and also being suitable 1 Bund. XIV, 25. ® See § 1; the particulars which follow are also found in Bund. XIV, 14-18, 21-24, showing that the Bundahis must be derived from the Damdad. ’ The title of this work, in Pahlavi, is Tékhm-afismarisnith-i hangardiké, but it is not known to be extant. * Reading mar4k (Chaldee 87), but this is doubtful, though the Iranian final k is often added to Semitic Huzv4ris forms ending with 4. It may be min&4k, ‘thinking, thoughtful,’ or a corruption of mantk, ‘mine,’ in which last case we should translate, ‘ this is a summary of mine.’ 5 Bund. XXIV, 6. ® Literally, ‘camel-ox-leopard.’ 182 APPENDIX TO THE BUNDAHIS. for ambling, became the steed of Mandséthar. 20. Among goats are the ass-goat, the Arab, the fawn (varikd), the roe, and the mountain goat. 21. Among martens are the white ermine, the black marten, the squirrel, the beaver (khaz), and others. 22. Of musk anzmals with a bag, one is the Bishmusk—which eats the Bish poison and does not die through it, and it is created for the great advantage that it should eat the Bish, avd less of z¢ should succeed in poisoning the creatures—and one is a musk animal of a black colour which they desired (ayfiftS) who were bitten dy the fanged serpent— as the serpent of the mountain water-courses (mak) is called—which is numerous on the river-banks; one throws the same unto it for food, which it eats, and then the serpent enters its body, when his} serpent, at the time ¢izs happens, feeds upon the same belly in which the serpent is, and he will become clear from that malady. 23. Among birds two were produced of a different character from the rest, and those are the griffon bird and the bat, which have teeth zz the mouth, avd suckle ther young with animal milk from the teat. 24. This is the fifth contest, as to animals. CuaprTer X,
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1Secondly, the resurrection and /eavenly path, the gathering and dispersion, and the nature of the circumstances of the resurrection, as regards the virtuous and evil-doers, through the weight of every action they perform for good and evil.’ This description corresponds very closely with what the Bundahis must have been, before the addition of the genealogical and chronological chapters at the end; and D4d-sparam mentions in his text here, and again in § 16, particulars regarding the Damd&d which also occur in the Bundahis (XIV, 2, 14-18, 21-24). There can be very little doubt, therefore, that the Bundahis was originally a translation of the Démdad, though probably abridged; and the text translated in this volume is certainly a further abridgment of the original Bundahis, or Zand-4k4s. Whether the Avesta text of the Damdad was still in existence in the time of Dad-sparam is uncertain, as he would apply the name to the Pahlavi text. At the present time it is very unusual for a copyist to write the Pahlavi text without its Avesta, when the latter exists, but this may not always have been the case. ? Or ‘brains.’ 2 Supposing the MS. galdélag is a corruption of gallak (Pers. ghallah). > Assuming the MS. alfiné or arvanéd to be a corruption of alfim or arsand. “ Reading raf instead of 14. 5 Compare Bund. XIV, 2. * Either this sentence is very corrupt in the MS. or it cannot be SELECTIONS OF ZAD-SPARAM, IX, 3-10. 179 5. And it is also said that from the lungs are the ruelike herbs! whzch heal, and are for the lung-disease of cattle. 6. This, rooted amid the heart, is thyme, from which is Vohiman’s thorough withstanding of the stench of Akéman’, and z¢ zs for that which proceeds from the sick and yawners. 7. Afterwards, the brilliance of the seed, seized upon, by strength, from the seed whzck was the ox’s, they would carry of from it, ad the brilliance was intrusted to the angel of the moon’; in a place therein that seed was thoroughly purified by the light of the moon, and was restored in its many qualities, and made fully infused with life (g4nvarhémand). 8. Forth from there it produced for Atran-vég, first, two oxen, a pair, male and female‘, and, afterwards, other species, until the completion of the 282 species’; and they were discernible as far as two long leagues om the earth. 9. Quadrupeds walked forth on the land, fish swam in the water, and birds flew zz the atmosphere; zz every two, at the time good eating is enjoyed, a longing (4vdah4n) arose therefrom, and pregnancy and birth. 10. Secondly, their subdivision is thus :—First, they are divided into three, that is, quadrupeds walking on the earth, fish swimming in the water, reconciled with the corresponding clause of Bund. XIV, 2. Altering dénak and gfinak into gandanak, and samagé into samasdar, we might read, ‘from the nose is m4ys, which is called the leek, and the leek was an onion;’ but this is doubtful, and leaves the word m4ys unexplained.
2XIV, 2. Altering dénak and gfinak into gandanak, and samagé into samasdar, we might read, ‘from the nose is m4ys, which is called the leek, and the leek was an onion;’ but this is doubtful, and leaves the word m4ys unexplained. 1 The MS. has géspend&né, ‘cattle,’ instead of sipandand, ‘rue herbs.’ . * See Bund. I, 24, 27, XXVIII, 7, XXX, ag. ® Bund. X, 2, XIV, 3. 4 Bund. X, 3, XIV, 4. 5 Bund. X, 3, XIV, 13. 180 _ APPENDIX TO THE BUNDAHIS. and birds flying in the atmosphere. 11. Then, into five classes}, that is, the quadruped which is roundhoofed, the double-hoofed, the: five-clawed, the bird, and the fish, whose dwellings are in five places, and which are called aquatic, burrowing, oviparous, widetravelling, and suitable for grazing. 12. The aquatic are fish and every beast of burden, cattle, wild beast, dog, and bird which enters the water; the burrowing are the marten (samfr) and musk anzmals, and all other dwellers and movers in holes; the oviparous are birds of every kind; the widetravelling sprang away for help, and are also those of a like kind; those suitable for grazing are whatever are kept grazing in a flock. 13. And, afterwards, they were divided into genera, as the round-hoofed are one, which is all called ‘horse ;’ the double-hoofed are many, as the camel and ox, the sheep and goat, and others double-hoofed; the five-clawed are the dog, hare, musk animals, marten, avd others; then are the birds, and then the fish. 14. And then they were divided into species *, as eight species of horse, two species of camel, ten® species of ox, five species of sheep, five species of goat, ten of the dog, five of the hare, eight of the marten, eight of the musk azzmals, 110 of the birds, and ten of the fish; some are counted for the pigs, and with all those declared and all those undeclared ¢here were, at first, 282 species *; and with the species within species there were a thousand varieties. 1 Bund. XIV, 8-12. 2 Bund. XIV, 13-23, 26, 27. ® Bund. XIV, 17 says ‘fifteen,’ which is probably correct. * Only 181 species are detailed or ‘ declared’ here, SELECTIONS OF ZAL-SPARAM, IX, II-I9. 181 15. The birds are distributed? into eight groups (rtstak5), and from that which is largest to that which is smallest ¢hey are so spread about as when a man, who is sowing grain, first scatters abroad ¢hat of heavy weight, then that which is middling, and afterwards that which is small.
3181 15. The birds are distributed? into eight groups (rtstak5), and from that which is largest to that which is smallest ¢hey are so spread about as when a man, who is sowing grain, first scatters abroad ¢hat of heavy weight, then that which is middling, and afterwards that which is small. 16. And of the whole of the species, as enumerated a second time in the Damdéd Nask?, and written by me in the manuscript (niptk) of ‘the summary enumeration of races?’—this is a lordly‘ summary—the matter which is shown is, about the species of horses, the first is the Arab, and the chief of them® is white and yellow-eared, and secondly the Persian, the mule, the ass, the wild ass, the water-horse, avd others. 17. Of the camel there are specially two, ‘hat for the plain, amd the mountain one which is double-humped. 18. Among the species of ox are the white, mud-coloured, red, yellow, black, and dappled, the elk, the buffalo, the camel-leopard®, the ox-fish, avd others. 19. Among sheep are those having tails and those which are tailless, also the wether and the Kairisk which, because of its trampling the hills, zés great horn, and also being suitable 1 Bund. XIV, 25. ® See § 1; the particulars which follow are also found in Bund. XIV, 14-18, 21-24, showing that the Bundahis must be derived from the Damdad. ’ The title of this work, in Pahlavi, is Tékhm-afismarisnith-i hangardiké, but it is not known to be extant. * Reading mar4k (Chaldee 87), but this is doubtful, though the Iranian final k is often added to Semitic Huzv4ris forms ending with 4. It may be min&4k, ‘thinking, thoughtful,’ or a corruption of mantk, ‘mine,’ in which last case we should translate, ‘ this is a summary of mine.’ 5 Bund. XXIV, 6. ® Literally, ‘camel-ox-leopard.’ 182 APPENDIX TO THE BUNDAHIS. for ambling, became the steed of Mandséthar. 20. Among goats are the ass-goat, the Arab, the fawn (varikd), the roe, and the mountain goat. 21. Among martens are the white ermine, the black marten, the squirrel, the beaver (khaz), and others. 22. Of musk anzmals with a bag, one is the Bishmusk—which eats the Bish poison and does not die through it, and it is created for the great advantage that it should eat the Bish, avd less of z¢ should succeed in poisoning the creatures—and one is a musk animal of a black colour which they desired (ayfiftS) who were bitten dy the fanged serpent— as the serpent of the mountain water-courses (mak) is called—which is numerous on the river-banks; one throws the same unto it for food, which it eats, and then the serpent enters its body, when his} serpent, at the time ¢izs happens, feeds upon the same belly in which the serpent is, and he will become clear from that malady. 23. Among birds two were produced of a different character from the rest, and those are the griffon bird and the bat, which have teeth zz the mouth, avd suckle ther young with animal milk from the teat. 24. This is the fifth contest, as to animals. CuaprTer X,
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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